A very extensive bibliography of published sources on World War I is also maintained by the International Society for First World War Studies.
General Histories of the War
R. G. Grant, World War I: The Definitive Visual History (2014).
G. J. Meyer, A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918 (2006).
Michael Neiberg, Fighting the Great War: A Global History (2005).
Hew Strachan, The First World War (2005).
Origins of the War
Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2014).
Edward J. Erickson, Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913 (2003).
Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (2013).
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August (1962).
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 (1966).
Geoffrey Wawro, A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (2014).
Military, Campaign, and Battle Histories
Prit Buttar, Collisions of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 (2014).
Karl Deuringer, ed./trans. Terence Zuber, The First Battle of the First World War: Alsace-Lorraine (2014).
Martin Gilbert, The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War (2006).
Peter Hart, Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914 (2014).
Peter Hart, Gallipoli (2011).
Holger Herwig, The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World (2009).
Paul Jankowski, Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War (2014).
John Keegan, The First World War (2000).
Nick Lloyd, Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I (2014).
Alan Palmer, Victory 1918 (2001).
Dennis Showalter, Tannenberg: Clash of Empires (1991).
Norman Stone, The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (2004).
Mark Thompson, The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 (2008).
Glenn E. Torrey, The Romanian Battlefront in World War I (2012).
Naval History
Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command (2013).
Paul G. Halpern, Naval History of World War I (2012).
Robert K. Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (2004).
Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (1992).
Combatant Diaries and Memoirs
Hervey Allen, Toward the Flame.
Henri Barbusse, Under Fire.
Louis Barthas, Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918.
Warren R. Jackson, His Time in Hell: A Texas Marine in France, The World War I Memoir of Warren R. Jackson.
Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel.
Emilio Lussu, A Soldier on the Southern Front: The Classic Italian Memoir of World War 1.
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
Empires and Imperial Politics
Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2013).
David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (2009).
Isabel V. Hull, A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War (2014).
George Morton-Jack, The Indian Army on the Western Front (2014).
Edward Paice, World War I: The African Front, An Imperial War on the Dark Continent (2008).
Joshua A. Sanborn, Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (2014).
Jonathan Schneer, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2010).
The Home Front Experience
Susan R. Grayzel, Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999).
Philip Jenkins, The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade (2014).
David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (2004).
Celia M. Kingsbury, For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Homefront (2010).
Studies of Britain, France, and the Allied Nations
Robert B. Bruce, A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War (2003).
Susan R. Grayzel, Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999).
Elizabeth Greenhalgh, The French Army and the First World War (2014).
Adrian Gregory, The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War (2008).
Peter Simkins, Kitchener's Army (1988; 2014).
David Trask, The AEF and Coalition War Making, 1917-1918 (1993).
Studies of Germany and the Central Power Allies
Roger Chickering, Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 (2004).
Robert T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun (2005).
Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (2004).
Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I (2014).
Frank Weber, Eagles on the Crescent: Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Turkish Alliance, 1914-1918 (1970).
The United States in World War I
Alan Axelrod, Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda (2009).
Thomas Boghardt, The Zimmerman Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I (2012).
Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Same Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010).
Edward M. Coffman, The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1998).
David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980; 2004).
Kathleen Kennedy, Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion during World War I (1999).
David Laskin, The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (2010).
David Woodward, The American Army and the First World War (2014).
Women's and African American Perspectives
Kathryn J. Atwood, Women Heroes of World War I (2014).
Lettie Gavin, American Women in World War I (2011).
Susan R. Grayzel, Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999).
Christine E. Hallett, Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of World War I (1914).
Kimberly Jensen, Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (2008).
Kathleen Kennedy, Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion during World War I (1999).
Tammy M. Proctor, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (2003).
Jeffrey T. Sammons, Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War (2014).
Mary W. Schaller, Deliver Us from Evil: A Southern Belle in Europe at the Outbreak of World War I (2011).
Chad L. Williams, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (2013).
The Aftermath of the War and Memory
Lisa M. Budreau, Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 (2010).
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (2000).
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2003).
David Reynolds, The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century (2014).
Richard Rubin, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War (2013).
Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 (2014).
Steven Trout, On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance 1919-1941 (2012).
Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (2014).
Jay Winter, The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On (2009).
Jay Winter, The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On (2009).
World War I Literature and Literature Studies
Max Arthur, The Faces of World War I: The Great War in Words and Pictures (2012).
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
Celia M. Kingsbury, The Peculiar Sanity of War: Hysteria in the Literature of World War I (2002).
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back.
Last updated October 2014.
